Ranking Every Unreal/Unreal Tournament Game Before Epic Shuts Them All Down From WORST TO BEST
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Howdy everyone and today we are ranking every Unreal and Unreal Tournament game from worst to best before Epic Games shuts them all down in a few days. Let me know your favorite games or memories.
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Footage used for games I no longer have:
UT 2003: • Unreal Tournament 2003...
UT Championship: • Unreal Championship (C...
UT 2004 singleplayer: • Unreal Tournament 2004...
ut2004 offline with bots is more fun than call of duty since 2011 they cant shut that down
TRUE words... ❤🔥
@@YTmokey42, yes. Thanks to the great, and very configurable, bots, the Unreal Torunaments/Unreal Championships games will always be very playable, allowing you to play on the map that you choose, with the skill level that you choose, with the mutators that you choose, and using the mods that you choose, and the bots won't cheat, or quit the game when they are losing, or deliberately shoot their own team.
Plus the Unreal Tournament games on the PC have countless new maps, new mutators, new game-play modes, new mods, etc, making sure that the games never become boring. I always install UT 1999 and UT 2004 whenever I get a new PC or laptop. Utterly timeless games.
Emosonal damage to activition 🤣🤣🤣
Absolute correct 😁
FACTS. Man, it's so hard trying to find a game that resembles anything like the feelings from the Unreal series anymore.
I like all Unreal games. I get why UT2004 is praised as the best. But for me personally, I prefer UT99 more for its industrial feel, techno music and super fast pace. UT2004 feels more cartoony to me and players look small relative to the environment and therefore pace feels slower than UT99. But overall, both of them are GOATs.
Exactly! How can UT2003 be ranked second worst, which it probably is, and UT2004 ranked as the best when it's largely based on UT2003?
Don't get me wrong, I loved UT2004 at the time and I even liked UT2003 a lot when it first came out, but as the years passed, it became more and more obvious that the original UT was the one that best stood the test of time.
I think the reason UT3 felt like a downgrade from 2k4 is because the developers were trying to make UT3 more competitive. I remember watching an interview where a developer said they are only adding weapons that fit the game and not because it sounds and look cool. The removal of the dodge jump from 2k4 into UT3 was also a competitive decision because they didn't want players covering too much ground and punish players for being out of position. The removal of features from a pervious game will always have a negative effect overall even if they are justified, more is just better. I did had fun with UT3, my only complaint was the graphics. I truly wish it was more colorful.
Love UT3 / championship I remember playing with bots for hours on end. Prefer it to UT4
let's make players more "competitive" in UT3 by removing skill movement features and weapon variety cause the new kids are dumb and can't handle all that stuff.
and after all the stupid decisions, Fortnite happened.
F@€% U EPIC you greedy bastards.
It was alright, but I feel the problem was that it lost the unreal soul, which was always “anything goes” and it tried to trade it for a gears of war like, normal mapped to hell cohesive look
It's because it was made with consoles in mind.
UT3 actually has the most refined gameplay in the series. What lets it down is the overall design and subsequently the game atmosphere.
For me, the ideal UT game, which unfortunately will never come, would have UT99's atmosphere/aesthetics, UT2004's level of content, and UT3's gameplay, running on UE5.
My Favorite was UT 2004, but UT3, 2004, and the OG UT are all very close to each other. Within 10%.
Shame none of them will continue being officially supported.
But that's just scratching the surface of UT2004, if you really want to see it at it's best you need the 64 bit version, open the config file set everything to max no compressed lighting etc, then get Great Emerald's Mutator set which replaces the vehicles, health, guns with UT3 models, and it looks amazing to add the cherry on top you play it with Reshade
UT99 will always be the Mecca of the series. If you got good with the translocator telefragging was so satisfying
ut3 has some cool maps but I miss all the more exotic map locations of 2004
personally i'd put UT99 at nr 1 above everything else
but other than that spot on ranking.
there's just something about the aesthetic of UT99 that no other game has ever managed to reproduce in gaming history (let alone within the unreal franchise). the fast paced gameplay, the simplicity, the limitless possibilities, the maps (which i think are the best in the series), even the tournament campaign... and the soundtrack?? imo the best soundtrack in gaming history. nothing beats the dnb jungle inspired ost of it.
Completely agree.
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I've never felt like Epic is the kind of company that cares about its games or its legacy or is capable of any kind of sentimentality. They only care about the product that makes them the most money at the time, which is why they already abandoned Unreal Tournament after Gears of War became popular, and had ditched Unreal proper even before that.
They abandoned Unreal for Unreal Tournament, ironically. There was an Unreal Tournamente in development in 2016 but it was ditched for Fortine and it's all they care about now.
Welll that's not completely true. They still attempted another proper Unreal (Unreal 2) after the success of Tournament, but it was a shitty sequel, no wonder it was gonna fail. Similarly, they made UT3 after Gears of War, which also has the same story, it was a subpar sequel.
I think the thing that really stings is pulling all the Unreal games from all digital storefronts. It really comes off as being ashamed of their legacy and not wanting people to try out their older titles, maybe they did it to try and curb search results for Unreal to always point towards the newest version of the engine? Even still it wasn't necessary to delist them. Should have just made them entirely, officially free to download instead.
Edit: I am technically wrong! you can still buy and play Unreal Championship 2 on the Xbox Series, it's still on the store there.
@@Soreign_ And they abandoned Jack Jazzrabbit for Unreal, when 2d platformers stopped being popular. So yes, they did it already for long time.
Unreal Championship 2 was a precursor to the "hero shooter" genre. The added melee combat that actually was useful should have been integrated into the following games.
When the light-medium-heavy class mentioned, automatically the TF2 and Overwatch came to my mind. It's sad that that UT had the potential even for the future generations but it's never happened, instead we got a Fortnite, somehow :\
The original too since every faction had unique attributes. UC2 took it to another level.
UT99 was magical
Truely
i just played ut2004 but against bots. its my favourite game because back in 2004 my family only had dial up so i never gamed online. but ut2004 game me a online game experience without internet. i didn't get high speed internet until 2007 for xbox 360 primarily. but i was mind blown by all the map packs for ut2004
For me Unreal Gold was one of the first games i played in my life, i really enjoyed that game and still do especially the story mode and the last unreal game that i got to play was ut99, these 2 games have a special place in my heart
That game isn’t just a shooter unreal gold was like an adventure for me the environment and how badly the nali were treated by everyone else
My memorable moments with the series:
UT99: Minigunning an opponent upwards on Morpheus. He just flies higher and higher until you run out of ammo.
UT99: Accidentally falling from a great height and landing on a bot, killing him while surviving myself. The killfeed didn't know what to write except "[my player] killed [opponent]"
Unreal: A kind of melodramatic, almost sad feeling after finishing the game for the first time. "Okay, so what am I going to do now?"
UT2004: LAN party with 5-6 other guys on Phobos. Everyone running around on the roof (for some reason) trying to kill each other. One player wipes everyone out with the Ion Cannon. Everyone laughs at getting killed.
UT99: Discovering modern remixes of the soundtrack, particularly Necto Ulin's work.
Yeah … that were the times 😊
Yes, UT 2004, fantastic out of the box and tons of great full mods, mod character models and mod maps.... Ballistic Weapons (don't forget Ballistic Blood), UT2341, UT3 characters, UT3 weapons, Community Bonus Map Pack, Ultimate Community Map Packs, monster packs, the list goes on. Scrolling sniper weapons (in & out). And using Reshade you can cut into the graphics divide with UT3... And yes, 2k4 just plays better. The bots are pretty great to start, and there is even a bot enhancement mutator. And on the bot selection screen are pictures of the bots.
I'm Jonathan too, lol. Nice job on the video.👍
UT 2004 is by far the best in the series, (In my opinion....). It had the best maps in the series, and the feel of UT 2004 was just glorious. That early 2000s coolness man. I had 100s of hours into UT 2004, and it was a fantastic game, and by far my favorite Arena Shooter ever made.. (In my opinion). I still love Unreal and UT 99, but UT 2004 was just more nostalgic. Epic Games is the worst for bringing these games down. I hate you Fortnite, rot in hell.
i started in 2005 with ut2004 , for me ut2004 .. 2k4 has been the ultimate shooter experience this game was so epic adrenalin kick shooter , never a shooter that can match this ut2k4 experience for me , played 2005 to 2009 i was in a clan played on ctf and ictf maps , some tam and tdm to my had own clan service , good times and even some clanbase matches our clan video is even on youtube still from 14 years ago .
I started fps with doom and doom 2 but ut99 really got me into cpu gaming, cpu upgrading and eventually cpu building. That voodoo2 card made it so realistic at the time. I spent many nights playing with friends, mostly ctf instagib. We had a “clan” and organized everything on irc.
Is there really no way to play ut99 now?
ther is no longer any official ways to buy the game but you can buy the rom for it second hand or pirate it
25:05 Honestly? I think UT2004 looks better in aesthetics viewpoint, than UT3. UT3 is just too dark, i never really could attached to it. I don't know if u guys saw UT2004 with RTX, but man, that stuff is hot, and really brings that aesthetics differences to the table i think.
Yeah, but going back I do miss all those modern bells and whistles. The UT3 rocket launcher is just so cool. Shame the game itself is a bit clunky.
UT2003 had one of the best main menu themes. 2004 is where I lived a good portion of my childhood, but it IS criminal they took down the games so you can't even buy them.
I'm kind of playing catch-up with '90s and early 2000s FPSes right now (I've been into 16-bit games, and puzzle games, and JRPGS, and metroidvanias, and a few other things over the years, but I was so bad at Doom and Wolf3D as a kid that FPSes largely fell off my radar aside from a short stint playing UT 1999 with friends and a much shorter stint playing Counterstrike with some of the same friends. Anyway, I played through almost the entire Half-Life series, then BioShock, then played the OG Quake, and then I thought "what about the first Unreal game?" I checked Steam because I bought Unreal Tournament there a few years back, but it wasn't there. Checked GOG, nothing. "OK," I thought, "they must finally only be selling the Unreal series on the Epic Store. Well, for the first time in my life, I will bite the bullet and actually buy something from the Epic Games Store." But nope, they took it down on their own storefront as well, even the single-player games. 🤷What a ridiculous company.
Unreal 1, what this game does with music is out of this world. My favorite game.
I completely disagree with you; UT2003 I think is one of the best Unreal Games. I didn't care for UT2004 because I am personally not a fan of having vehicles in FPS. The original Unreal Tournament and Unreal Gold are the two best ones for sure. I would pick UT2003 as my 3rd favorite followed by UT3. I can't speak for Unreal Championship because I've never played it. I didn't care much for Unreal Championship 2 because it was 3rd Person view. Unreal Gold Return To Na Pali is a fantastic add on to the original Unreal Gold. I am really hoping that Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament get a remaster.
So funny: I enjoyed Unreal 2 as a kid. Twenty+ years later, I looked up reviews and everyone unanimously hates it. I kind of want to go back and replay it to see where older-me lands on that spectrum haha.
So true. I also really liked Unreal 2 and all other unreals when I was a child. I guess we were less picky and less spoiled than gamers nowadays 😂
I played as a kid and leave it, twenty years later I understand the hate, but I find cool stuff like the granade launcher and all those six granade modes. (Except for smoke)
I loved it back then too! I played it way more than once and remember quite well it was good.
@@guyg.8529 To have an idea (Also answering the fact of "go back" in time) Gamespot Greg Kasavin's review, the game was even decent at his time.
I replayed it last year for the first time in like 15 years and it's really not that good. Even for its time it was a meh game, but I'm still fond of it because it is a childhood game from a time where I didn't have many games anyway, so I enjoyed whatever I had.
In my case UT99 is so nostalgic for me that it almost can go on the first place))) Even though I love UT2004, I still miss some maps from UT99 (for example the assault map with a ship). I also miss the UT99 weapon look and design. However, in my opinion UT2004 looks better than UT3, especially the weapon design. In general, I'd agree and place UT2004 on the first place
Got into UT99 for the first time about 5 months ago and I love it.
I love Unreal mostly UT99 because my computer couldn't handle UT2004, but now I want to install 2004 and I can't get it
You can still buy grey-market keys for it for GOG or Steam. Alternately, you can get it pretty cheap on ebay, especially if you buy the Anthology.
All that said, I would consider these games abandonware at this point and fully endorse the art of "yarr" in this case.
As someone that played UT 99 and is currently Playing UT2004, ill say that 1999 is far better in terms of gameplay, graphics and fun in general. A lot if the death animations and bullet push back that made the original fun was removed in 2004 and wven the red screen to show when youre getting hit was also removed.
The Characters in 2004 looks so muddled up, you'd always confuse them with Objects and weapons floating.
Agreed!
Unreal championship xbox was my childhood beating. Godlike difficulty was fun
I worked on a couple of unreal engine 2, unreal engine 3 projects back in the day. Videos like this one really are giving me some good vibes about working on a modern map for ut2004!
Original unreal castle flyby is very nostalgic for me
Nothing will replace UT from late 1999 through mid 2001. Just incredible online support, ngStats, PUF / BUF, Cl@nbase and Proving Grounds, all the maps, mods, public servers, mutators, skins, official free DLC, massive player counts, etc. I don't think there will ever be a community like that again.
That were the best times.
You didnt talk about the inhuman or godlike bots which players thought were real players online back in 2000-01 , but those needs some tweaking which one also can do - a catious bot has minus 0.5 combatstyle meaning is has a has engade distance -this is the standard in the game but one can tweak the .ini-files , nothing hinders you set the combatstyle to minus 0.1,-0.2 etc and same with aggressive bots +0.1-0.999 999 9 to 1.0 meaning the prefered combatstyle for the bot distance are zero inch from your navel - low skilled bots damage changes with thier runspeed - starting from 0.6 to 0.9 -skilled bots do same damage from 0.9 to 1.0 , if you play in normal gamemode and have averge bots with thier skill turned to max ( runspeed 1.0) but now they act dumb but they do smallest damage % a normal runing bot can do eg your run speed but the bot do so little damage - thats the special about normal contra hardcore -turbo is just about 0.65 aircontrol -useful in low grav
Used to love playing Unreal Championship 2 as Raiden from Mortal Kombat. It felt sooooo right hahaha
The Unreal games, '99 in particular are my unironic "born in the wrong generation" moments for me. When I was 13 my dad described Unreal Tournament to me as "if you weren't moving and shooting constantly you were a piece of red meat on the floor" and that stuck with me until I came across the game's store page on Steam and remembered him telling me about that. I've been in love with the game ever since and have played all the other ones that were on Steam, even Unreal 2. I always come back to them every few months and are my go-to when I have no internet. I'm 20 now and a feeling thats persisted in me was wishing I was born in time to be 13 for the peak of the original UT, and to get excited about subsequent entries as they came out. It is pretty corny when I actually type it out loud lol
I was disheartened when I heard about the games being delisted on Steam knowing epic wouldn't be returning to the series again, especially after Unreal Tournament 4 which I'm not surprised didn't get mentioned in this video. If they do anything at all with Unreal Tournament 3 that involves making it more widely available, I'm jumping on that wagon even if its far from my favorite UT.
Thanks for the video dude
Born 97 and I grew up playing all the classics like quake to unreal to half life etc thanks to my dad and I was always a really big fan of unreal tournament sad to see what Epic has become
This video heavily praises the customizability of bot matches in both UT99 and UT2004, as the best way to enjoy them in singleplayer. And while I absolutely agree with this, this is also true for all the other UT and UC games, where it's a bit unfair to criticize those for their lackluster campaigns to justify their lower rankings (among other things). I've also had a ton of fun with both UC2 and UT3 (and sometimes still have), just messing around with all the options those game can give you. The Titan mutator, for example, can be mad fun. UT3 also has some fantastic community contents, making it one of my favorite entries to go back to, despite the GoW story and visuals.
Played UT99 from 2000 to about 2011.
But lately Epic destroyed Rocket League. Now I learn that Epic literally removed Unreal lmao wtf. FCK EPIC. Will boycot Epic for the rest of my life now. 💯
UT99 was one of the first video games I ever played. Absolutely fell in love. I’m glad I got it on steam before Epic removed it.
UT3 was good. But if there is one thing I could remove from the game, it would be the annoying way that the weapons swayed left and right as you turn the camera. It seriously triggers me and I don't know why.
Unreal Championship was one of my favorite games on the original xbox
It's so bizarre the fact that you can't buy these games anymore, not even in Epic Games Store. That's just stupid.
UT2004 is my best game ever. I just hated when servers started to put flashy skins that could be seen from miles away. Who goes to war with such visible aspect? Noone! So why doing so with the skins?
I've always preferred the dark gritty atmosphere of UT99 over the bright lush atmosphere of UT2004. The maps in UT99 look like actual places and feel like a true expansion on Unreal GOLD. May not have been the best in the series from a game-play/mechanical perspective, but the aesthetics are just way cooler.
Absolutely
I know that Unreal 2 is considered shitty, and compared to the rest of the series and other shooters around that time, I don't disagree. But I'm still fond of it, because funnily enough, it was my first Unreal game. I played it way back in the day when it was still kinda new, and I also didn't have that many games at the time, especially not many shooters. One thing I can say is that it was definitely the best looking game of its year at least.
Hahahhaha Unreal 2003/Championship 6th hahahaha is basically the best!! And yes I know the IP addresses
I got Unreal bundled with my Voodoo 3 card but I was ignorant and didn't realize my PC didn't have an AGP slot so I had to swap it for a PCI card, but I kept the copy of Unreal and gave the other copy to my friend and we played Deathmatch over 56k dialup.
I still remember coming out of Vortex Rikers onto the surface of Na Pali.
And now there's like Unreal 5 Engine, and Epic's shutting down UT servers.
Time flies fast...
the male announcer is iconic but the female announcer when you get a huge multikill killstreak is something else
You mean the Sexy voice?
"open the field" and "top of the end" are both hilarious malapropisms
I tested Unreal Championship 2 and thought it was an underappreciated game. Melee combat and being able to Reflect any weapons for made the game a lot of fun. Outside of the game modes themselves, we'd stand across maps, shoot a rocket and see how many times we could reflect back and forth. With each reflection the ticket would get faster and faster. If you were lucky enough to reflect a sniper round, it was an automatic headshot to the original shooter.
the demo disc from xbox magazine baby
If any of the other games had DOMINATION in them they would be highly favored, but they left it in the first UT. But that title doesn't have GREED, which UTIII does. gdit
Granted, they put Domination into 2003, 2004, but they altered the format subtracting the need to find a 3rd point I think it was. Lame.
GREED & Domination were the best. Always bummed when the Domination tier was over.
Oh & the vehicles in 2004 were top notch. I could pilot every single damn thing almost perfectly. They had to change things though for part III and I adapted but they were not as easy to fly, drive, pilot.
Agreed that Domination and Greed are fantastic, they are also among my favorite modes to play. They are in this sweet spot between the basic Team Deathmatch and the more "complicated" objective based team modes, where they are more interesting to play, but it never gets too overwhelming with what's going on and you don't have to rely on team mates as much (which is good when playing with bots). Double Domination from UT200x also didn't really do it for me, it's super annoying and too campy with the countdown mechanic.
At least UT3 does have a decent mod that adds the classic Domination to it, so you can have both modes there. (I prefer the CBP3 version, it's clean and simple, only adds "Domination" and nothing else, and the maps are awesome, especially Enslaved and Collision Course. It feels as close to an official version as it can get.)
UT 2004 is the best. I only dislike double domination mode, original domination in UT99 was much better and starting assaulut rifle was very weak (in original UT enforcer was bit to strong, I think enforcer in UT 3 was the best starting weapon). You could include unfinished UT 4 as well to this list, in my opinion it is still better than UT 3.
My thoughts exactly. They really dropped the ball with Double Domination. Fortunately there is a mutator that does a fantastic job of recreating it in UT2k4: Classic Domination.
@@FuzedBox Thanks, I'll try this mutator.
@@Ragnar-id8kx You'll like it. It works surprisingly well with the stock DD maps and places the third capture points in logical spots.
Bonus mutator recommendation: Slave Master. It's an absolute blast in UT99. It was also made for 2k4 but it's a rare mod. Have that one but never tried it.
@@FuzedBox Thank you for the tips. Every couple of years I return to UT 2004, so I like to add something new there.
@@Ragnar-id8kx It had sadly been quite a few years here; 2015ish I think. I played the ever-loving hell out of the game. Remember buying it at the EB Games in the mall under downtown Atlanta by the Marriott and Hilton while I accompanied my dad to a business convention there. When I got back to the room I realized I had an un-serialized copy of the new DVD edition- one of very, *very* few; I had to take pictures of receipt and game, emailed Epic, and it was either Mark Rein or Tim Sweeny who personally emailed me a serial, forget which guy.
Played 2k4 three years straight, starting in that Marriott room on an old Sony VAIO. Before that I'd been borderline obsessed with UT99, but hadn't at that point bothered to try UT2003 because of friends' initial dislike (got to later and still appreciate). The hype of 2k4 was REAL, though. I was playing DM-Rankin and ONS-Torlan in the demo quite a bit at the hotel room before deciding to go for a walk to that mall. One of the best weekends of my life, despite it being nearly entirely by myself.
Revist the game many times over the years, with many mods and variations; It never got old; just sidetracked... I hardly play video games at all anymore, yet I've had a major nostalgia kick for the Unreal franchise.
Recently found quite a few great maps that I had never played and has been enough awesome with just stock deathmatch.
Sorry to rant. The franchise just means a lot to me, and I'm heartened to see youtubers in the same boat.
UT2004 is Holy Sh*t category.
Unreal Championship 2 had the best maps of any online FPS ive ever played
13:23 3 is just 2004 with less content really.
10:50 yeah, about that..........................
Quake isn't that good tbh it just got beloved because it was first as for the general gameplay the movement is great but the gunplay not so much.
It was brilliant for it's day (It was made 2 years before Unreal)
I just remember Unreal 2 was so damn short! When the thing at the end happened I thought "oh boy, here we go, time for epic revenge rampage" and then the credits started rolling.
I kinda liked unreal 2 but it wasn't my favorite, I've played the unreal games since I was a kid and I've gotta say that unreal championship 2 is my all time favorite and the fact that it has the mutators and the mk announcer as an option was so cool, and with the cheats menu you can do a small map and add a bunch of bots lol
I played a lot of 2003 and 2004 What I liked most is the mods you could make your own maps and skins (wich none but yourself could see unless they also had it installed) I liked the invasion mod a lot where you had to collab against all kinds of AI swarm attacks. You goined xp wich you could use to make yourself stronger.
Very sad to see my childhood favorite games slowly dying off one by one
and then we never even got ut3x :C
Actually fucking pathetic. Would be pennies for Epic to give us SOMETHING, and they just refuse.
Genuinely makes me feel sick when I think about it.
@@personnelproton I'm working on an open source project to bring back of the sorts. Check out Open Tournament
the best n1 is Original Unreal98
- Why Unreal tournament 1999 had to be a mod
- UT99 the mod is called BotPack and therefore it is Unreal98 with improved and modified Engine
Conclusion Unreal tournament is Unreal98 hidden by the BotPack mod
In the original Unreal98 already contains Deathmatch, TDM, Darkmatch
UT'99 was My Jam.
50 Frags in 20 minutes. That was my High School Lunch time. Against Gamers like me. NO ONE wanted to play me after that. Cowards.
I remember getting Unreal 2 for the og Xbox after having been obsessed with UT for the Dreamcast and thinking it wasn't too bad and a bit of a challenge to beat. Tbf I've owned most of these titles. U2:TA, UC, UC2:TLC, UT(Dreamcast), UT3(Xbox360)... they need to get their s***together and make a good new UT game if you ask me.
Whelp, Epic lied. UT3 is not coming back either. So many good memories with 2004, still play it to this day!
UT99 is the GOAT!
UT2004, UT99/UTGOTY, Unreal Gold...in that order and those are the only Unreal games I care about. I also own all three off gog (no DRM) and have them installed on Linux via source ports. Just like Quake 1 - 3.
I'm not sure what shutting down the master server means. All of Unreal games are still playable online with not a single change at all.
There are still people playing those games online, including myself.
This is just news to BS people because nothing really changed in practice.
Unreal 2 is not only my favorite Unreal of them all but my favorite videogame in the history of mankind. Unreal 2 is by far the most realistic and magical game of the saga and in some aspects is still more realistic than recent games. I love the game so much that I finished it like 60 or more times and I have to play it now and then.
I rejected everything you just said about Unreal 2 and you're telling lies. Nothing about the game is "generic". Specially the Na Koja Abad planet and the NC962 which is by far the most unique map I ever see in any video-game. You didn't like the game and that's fine, you don't have to tell lies about it and BS other people.
The guns were satisfying and much more realistics than any other unreal game. Everything about the game was incredibly interesting, literally everything, you just didn't found it because it's not your taste.
Also, Unreal 2 has a lot to do with other Unreal games, you see the Skaarj there, don't you? You just didn't like the experience and did a very partial review, which is very wrong.
In summary you commited the mistake of judging Unreal 2 for its gameplay. Unreal 2 is not about gameplay, it's about art, including the story. Unreal 2 is the most artistic game ever created, it's a digital masterpiece.
I agree with you putting UT2004 at first place, it's my second favorite video-game of all time right after Unreal 2. UT2004 is very, very fun, very interesting, beautiful and magical although not even close to Unreal 2 but still has a lot, lot more to offer.
UT3 is actually super awesome, BUT only if you have the right maps, modes and addons. I think there were about 2 or 3 maps that were the best UT maps ever. Had to try hundreds of maps to find them. ut2004 is definitely the easiest game to setup the correct balance and have the most gaming enjoyment.
With the unreleased UT it reached a point in development where it was really great, but then I noticed that very few maps were being added - then they added lots of ugly skins and it went downhill rapidly. I think it was intentional, as that move would easily scare away the younger audience. Typical management move.
I had started on 2003. I was way too young to be playing it. Me and my cousin loved it, and played the first two maps of the campaign (training day and gael) while under my mom's supervision. She played it too, always in some kind of CTF map.
I hated to break to you but UT 3 it probably not goin back.
It's 2024 and I heard nothing about UT 3 return so far.
The good new UT 4 have unofficial server's.
And as far I'm award the are Way's to play the priveous game's online.
I still can't hate on Unreal 2 after growing up on some narrative driven shooters growing up. Yes, it doesn't deserve the name of Unreal, but it's a pretty serviceable shooter on its own. Not to mention people admired the XMP expansion.
The first Unreal Championship had a special place in my heart because it was the first Unreal game I played in the series and I was a Xbox guy as a kid. The 2nd Unreal Championship is arguably my most favorite Unreal. I wish I had the chance to play that game online. It had to have a steep learning curve.
yeah unreal 3 im just now playing cause i now have a computer good enough to run it at playble speed lol it looks real good for 2005 2006 unreal engine 3 released in 2007, I am working on updating it in to unreal engine 4 or 5 to enhance the detail and lighting and shadow quality if i can get it converted :)
Well it's because UT is (in their eyes) a competitor to their flagship game fortnight. People playing unreal are people not playing the highly monetized Fortnight.
Now as a player I know the difference between these game is night and day, but to the bean counters at the studio? Fortnight's got the FPS genre covered.
So to their mind it's get these players out of these legacy games and into the online shopping game. Make sense right?
Except I love unreal tournament, I used to take time out of my day if we organised a team match in ut99, ut2k4 or ut3 with a clan or a duel against a solid player looking for a challenge, and I stuck with it up to the point I couldn't reliably find an online match anymore.
Fortnight on the other hand? Relatively slow paced, Totally different strategic game play, low skill ceiling, vastly different match types, different atmosphere and feel, overly monetized.
In short, I find it grating. Given the choice of playing fortnight and not playing anything at all? Doing nothing wins everytime.
And it's not like there arnt other alternatives besides epics own legacy games. Hell I can even jump into somthing like stellaris and play because even though its not an FPS game, I'd still have a better time doing that than playing fortnight.
Man with UT99 I became so invested into that game, I learned how to use the Unrealed program to make my own custom levels was a lot of fun. However the og unreal doesn’t have dynamic day to night cycles the skybox is static. However through some mover grids you can simulate a day to night change. Only map I’ve ever seen do this was on Ut99 with the monster hunt map Deadcity. Really creepy stuff when you’re only a bright eyed 10 year old lol. But loved this ranking list all the same.
Starting in the mid-ish 2010s (2014 at the earliest, I think) with a sort of I guess hiatus from 2019/2020 till last month because my computer was disassembled (last month I redownloaded the demo on a different computer), I've been playing a demo version of UT2004 (if you Google "UT2004 demo download", the CNET link is the one I've been playing), and although it's missing a LOT of the features the full game has, it's pretty fun IMO, and tbh this video is making me really tempted to find some way to play the full game lmfao. I also play UT3, though I still feel that 2004 - even the demo version I've been playing since the 2010s - is 100% superior. I'm tempted to eventually play all the games in the franchise, with UT99, Unreal, and UT4 being some of the ones I'm more interested in playing (UT2003 is also probably up there, but it's a fair bit similar to 2004 and I feel like I'd have a similar but somewhat more negative opinion of it).
i remember back in the day i used to play and mod the hell out of ut2004. Balistic mod with hl2 npcs like fast zombies etc. and riding the strider or gunship. my UT fodler allways have around 250GB of additional mods. Yeah its my all time favourite i have original 4CD with me still. Man so much memories
I don't know how to describe it, but there is a "sharpness" to unreal and unreal tournament. Sure I love ut2004, however, it hasn’t got that same "sharpness".
I remember seeing unreal 2 in the store, having played all the games up to ut2004, and trying to convince my older brother to buy it together, but he refused. Guess I really dodged the bullet there.
UTX and UT2k4 were one of the greatest.
the fact that UT3 sucked so hard is because it tried to take itself too serious, it followed the trend of making all its maps dark and gritty like its going through puberty and telling mom to frick off.
the onslaught and assault mode in UT2004 were absolutely amazing, despite the stilted lghtning engine and whackiness of the over-all engine making things feel "unreal?"
while UT3 was definetly a graphical update to 2004, it barely felt like unreal touurnament. it was slower-paced, everything was gritty, the story tried to take itself serious while making no sense. UTX had a story but it was brief, short and made at least some sense.
the evil liandri corproration had a violence problem with its laborers in the furthest sectors of its expansive empire and tried to quell internal rage and bloodlust by simulating deathmatch battles between its laborforce. liandri then figured out "wow, people pay money to watch that shit?" and then they did make people pay to watch that shit because people loved to watch skaarj warriors tear apart some gothic looking harlequin thingy screeching "TRY TURNING THE SAFETY OFF!"
Crazy they are getting delisted luckily I bought them on steam already - except 2k3 which was never available on steam
By far my favourite was 2003 :/
But yea I played it very extensively even on the ESL. I don’t recall switching to 2004
Yea ut99 we played so much on lan.. basically every weekend. 40% UT 40% cs beta 20% q3a
Unreal Gold is freaking awesome and love playing it. Also there is a RPG server to join aswell.
I only played UT99 & 2004, and these games still are in my top 10 fav. games.
All these reviews make me want to reinstall them, especially since Epic shut them down.
I'm so glad I book ght these disks back in the days.
I never liked ut 3 graphics, I bought it when it was released and come back to ut 2004 soon. UT 2004 is best shooter ever created and it sucks that epic shut down all of it. Also I think you SHOULD mention unreal 4 as there was huge community behind it, working on it at the epic just put middle finger to their faces
UT99 was the best of all … nothing can bring back this pioneer phase of online gaming, leagues and team feeling. Also it has clean visuals, nothing distracting and you can concentrate on the battle without any fancy stuff. Probably the best game of my life :)
Damn I love ut so much, spend so many hours playing ut2004 invasion rpg, Unreal insanity, Rosebum, Death Warrant monster mash, incredible servers, but only 1 of them still exists are it has not been updated in probably 10 years and has a concurrent playerbase of like 1, which is very bad considering the servers issues. I remeber somewhere that one of the reasons the ai is so good was that it was a deathmatch ai, so even things like basic skaarj will dodge projectiles, which can be a bit annoying on higher difficulties, but it means you have to try trick he ai, because you know he will dodge your attack, so you have to bait his dodge into a trap, add in the fact that they can hit you with projectiles at any range and speed, by predicting your position, you have to avoid there predictive aim, which coming from something like doom, is amazing.
Also 1 amazing thing from UT2003, the best thing, the main menu theme, I LOVE IT, so much but not anywhere in 2004, so sad.
Unreal to South seven and three not being released on the steam. Well that’s just a case for not getting rid of your physical media. I still have it in the game shelf today’s date plate but it did not have the fan but customization that parents tournament date where I made the app or Twitter skill I am the favorite skin over a lot of my friends when I couldn’t do that in 2003 I got the better bombed
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I loved this game when I was a kid and have been trying to look up and find these games specifically unreal tournament/championship and I could only remember the Anubis character. Thank you for making this video as it brings me back to my childhood! Sad to see they are taking the community servers down.
UT2004 is still tons of fun to play, I'll load up into the game and play through the campaign every few months
I could have sworn that unreal championship or unreal tournament 2 required a downloadable patch before you can play online for original Xbox. 🤔
I have played all the unreal games. Recently I started playing the UT games again online. There is still some servers still with people playing. There are bots for the servers that are empty. The mods support in 2k4 was great. I was surprised there is a community that still supports the game.
Sadly arena shooters are dead. Everything has its time. The time of arena shooters is over. I didnt play any games for years but I'm glad I played Quake 3 and unreal tournament back then. Also goldeneye on the N64. Those were the times.
did 2k4 come out on xbox? I thought that is what I played growing up. Whatever Unreal was on xbox was so fun, I would love to go back on play that on xbox live again
Really sucks how company’s have made retro gaming impossible one of the reason’s why i haven’t touched a controller since the ps3
UT3 is tons of fun. But damn do I hate the look of the game. The graphics just don't look too good and it's got a weird tint towards a dark yellow-ish green.
I dont really understand why they delisted these games. I mean, they realize these games can still be played offline, right? Wouldn't having these games for sale make Epic more money?
you didn't mention the big ass transforming tank monstrosity that you can use (in like 1 map) in Unreal Tournament 3 😥
You'd think that with all the money they make off of Fortnite, they'd support other franchises like Unreal Tournament as a little side-project